A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home ...

Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

Soon, visitors to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be able ... Researchers extracted scents from inside the sarcophagi of nine mummies embalmed up to 5,000 years ago and came away with ...

And although it costs an additional 100 Egyptian pounds (or $11) to enter, the Mummy Room should be high ... You'll also find several vendors selling souvenirs outside the museum.

Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered. Researchers who examined nine mummies found that though there was ...